Wilson “Kingpin” Fisk began his criminal career in 1967’s Amazing Spider-Man #50, and now Vincent D’Onofrio – responding to a rumor going around last week – wants to bring his “Daredevil” version of Kingpin to next year’s “Spider-Man: Homecoming.”
Tweeted the actor:
I love all this action about me doing #SpiderMan Tell Marvel!!!
Of course many characters introduced in the movies – Nick Fury, Lady Sif, Howard Stark, Phil Coulson, Peggy Carter and Maria Hill among them – have found their way onto Marvel’s ABC series.
But though “Daredevil,” “Agents of SHIELD,” “Jessica Jones” and “Agent Carter” all share an onscreen universe with “Incredible Hulk,” “Ant-Man,” “Thor,” “Iron Man Three,” “The Avengers,” “Captain America: Civil War” and so on, we’ve never seen a character introduced on ABC or Netflix ascend to the big screen.
The Punisher, played by Jon Bernthal on Netflix, was a component of Mark Millar’s print version of Civil War but unutilized in the new movie adaptation.
Maybe a phone call to D’Onofrio’s agent would change things?
The ABC and Netflix shows have characters talking about movie events, but the movies have yet to bother mentioning what transpires on TV. Earlier this month Chloe Bennet, who plays inhuman agent Daisy Johnson on “Agents of SHIELD,” bemoaned Marvel’s seeming inability to let its multiplex heroes reference what’s been transpiring on the small screens.
“People who make movies for Marvel, why don’t you acknowledge what happens on our show? Why don’t you guys go ask them that? Cause they don’t seem to care,” she implored fans gathered at Wizard World Des Moines. “The Marvel Cinematic Universe loves to pretend that everything is connected, but then they don’t acknowledge our show at all. So, I would love to do [a Marvel move], but they don’t seem too keen on that idea.”
